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A WORCESTER SHAPED OVAL DISH
CIRCA 1755
Painted in the Kakiemon style with banded hedges issuing flowering prunus and Oriental plants with a long-tailed bird and butterfly in flight above, within a brown-line rim, the underside basketweave-moulded (very minor wear)
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) wide

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For three pieces of early period Worcester porcelain decorated with this Japanese-inspired 'Banded Hedge' pattern see Simon Spero and John Sandon, Worcester Porcelain 1751-1790 The Zorensky Collection, Woodbridge, 1988, pp. 94-95, nos. 48-50, with no. 49, a yellow-ground stand for a potting-pot, also moulded with the same simulated basketweave pattern as that on the present lot. A Worcester teapot-stand of this pattern was sold by Bonhams in London, 'The Zorensky Collection of Worcester Porcelain', Part I, on 16 March 2004, lot 59.

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